Kathleen Stassen Berger The Developing Person Through the Life Span Eighth Edition Part V Adolescence: Cognitive Development Chapter Fifteen Adolescent Thinking Intuitive, Emotional Thought Teaching and Learning

Adolescent Thinking Egocentrism –Fables –The Imaginary Audience –Egocentrism Reassessed Formal Operational Thought –Piaget’s Experiments –Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning

Intuitive, Emotional Thought Two Modes of Thinking –Comparing Intuition and Analysis –Common Fallacies –Better Thinking Thinking About Religion

Teaching and Learning Definitions and Facts Middle School –Less Learning A CASE TO STUDY: James, the High-Achieving Dropout –Blaming Other People

Teaching and Learning Technology and Cognition –The Digital Divide –Learning via the Internet –The Dangers of Technology The Transition to a New School

Teaching and Learning High School –The College-Bound –Those Who Do Not Go to College THINKING CRITICALLY: Increasing Adolescent Engagement in School